Waverly Novels.

SCOTT, Walter.

Item Number: 3201

London: John C. Nimmo, 1892.

Octavo, 45 volumes. One of a three hundred sixty-five numbered sets printed on Arnold’s unbleached hand-made paper, with the Etchings printed as proofs before letters. Signed Riviere binding. Three-quarters leather. Raised bands, gilt tooling to the spine. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. In near fine condition. Lacking three volumes: 6, 17, and 19.The Waverly Novels are comprised of: Waverly, John Mannering, The Antiquary, Rob Roy, Old Mortality, Black Dwarf and Legend of Montrosity, Bride of Lammermoor, Heart of Mid-Lothian, Ivanhoe, The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth, The Pirate, The Fortunes of Nigel, Peveril of the Peak, Quentin Durward, St. Ronan’s Well, Red Gauntlet, The Betrothed, The Talisman, Woodstock, The Fair Maid of Perth, Anner of Geierstein, Count Robert of Paris, Castle Dangerous and Surgeon’s Daughter and Highland Widow. A beautiful set.

"Scott’s influence as a novelist was incalculable; he established the form of the historical novel, and the form of the short story" (Drabble, 879).